N35.81
Other urethral stricture, male
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
N35.81 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for other urethral stricture, male. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are N35.811 Other urethral stricture, male, meatal; N35.812 Other bulbous urethral stricture, male; N35.813 Other membranous urethral stricture, male; N35.814 Other anterior urethral stricture, male and 2 more. Its coding notes include 3 Excludes1 entries and 11 Excludes2 entries.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Also from chapter/block level (11 notes)
Inherited from N30–N39 Other diseases of the urinary system
Inherited from Chapter 14 Diseases of the genitourinary system
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
More specific codes under N35.81 6
- N35.811Other urethral stricture, male, meatalBillable
- N35.812Other bulbous urethral stricture, maleBillable
- N35.813Other membranous urethral stricture, maleBillable
- N35.814Other anterior urethral stricture, maleBillable
- N35.816Other urethral stricture, male, overlapping sitesBillable
- N35.819Other urethral stricture, male, unspecified siteBillable